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I write strictly for fun... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.

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Tom Clancy
Age: 66 †
Born: 1947
Born: April 12
Died: 2013
Died: October 1
Non-Fiction Writer
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Thomas Leo Clancy Jr.
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Thomas Leo Tom Clancy
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Thomas L. Clancy
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Success will ruin your life.
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The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.
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Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.
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Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.
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The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.
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Life is about learning when you stop learning, you die.
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There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.
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